- Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI
Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics
accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when
running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with

- As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically
included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package
- The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an
HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed

New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

- AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality
for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
- The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
- The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications
- samples are provided within the SDK
- The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site

Performance Improvements

Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
- Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on
4600, 4500 and 4300 series products

Resolved Issues:

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

- Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using
PowerDVD
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 9.3 6
- FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some
ASICs
- Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables
with some ASICs
- Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using
Catalyst Control Center
- Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function
- Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow
when using the Alt-Tab key